Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Blood is a powerful thing

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day